I am not able to understand the whole idea behind preemptive and non-preemptive kernel.
I know that Linux kernel is preemptive i.e it can preempt a task even as it executes in the kernel.
If I understand correctly isn't a task is process(right?) and if it is so then can we not kill a task when we want it ? And if we can do that then isn't all the tasks are preemptive in nature and so are all the kernels?
